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Old 01-11-2013, 12:44 PM #1
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Question Spar says ta-ra?
Literally every Spar in Southport has become a One Stop, and we have a lot of spars. It's quite weird and mysterious, and it means that we have mini tescos EVERYWHERE now.

Is this happening to anyone else's spars?
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Literally every Spar in Southport has become a One Stop, and we have a lot of spars. It's quite weird and mysterious, and it means that we have mini tescos EVERYWHERE now.

Is this happening to anyone else's spars?
I think I've seen a OneStop but never connected it with Spar.

Edit: > http://www.just-food.com/news/oft-cl..._id124528.aspx
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I hope this really cool spar in Liverpool doesn't change to a onestop
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wtf is a spar
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wtf is a spar
You Really MUST have lived a sheltered life!
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and what's a one stop. we have places called one stop shops run by the council for things like housing issues
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I've never seen Spar in my life, I'm guessing it's probably some stupid irrelevant shop which is more prominent in the North, don't think there even is one here
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I've never seen Spar in my life, I'm guessing it's probably some stupid irrelevant shop which is more prominent in the North, don't think there even is one here
"Spar is the worlds largest international food chain"
Really salman?
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"Spar is the worlds largest international food chain"
Really salman?
I'm 1000000% sure this stupid ****ty shop is not popular at all in London
Tesco > this ugly thing
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it sounds german.
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it sounds german.
Of course, because they had them first, just like Albrecht (Aldi) and Lidl and Netto!
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Of course, because they had them first, just like Albrecht (Aldi) and Lidl and Netto!
It's Dutch
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It's Dutch
You are, of course, right - I first came across them in Germany and thought that Spar meant Save (as it does in most Germanic languages) quite why it had a stylized green tree as a logo escaped me until I found that Spar in Dutch means Spruce! hence the logo.
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ew I've just googled it's ugly and would only suit a petrol station
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It's originally dutch
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Not a Northern thing, there's quite a few down here, tend to be pretty expensive though and generally quite small corner shop type places
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i've never heard of it either.

If it's the biggest food store in the world (that means it's even bigger than McDonalds, KFC, Burger King) why haven't I ever heard of it?
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i've never heard of it either.

If it's the biggest food store in the world (that means it's even bigger than McDonalds, KFC, Burger King) why haven't I ever heard of it?
It's the quote off the website
http://www.afblakemore.com/spar/welcome
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They're really popular in Europe, they have hypermarkets called interspar:
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No stores in North or South America!!
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and what's a one stop. we have places called one stop shops run by the council for things like housing issues
That's what our One Stop Shops are too^^^^

But yeah I thought everyone would know what the spar was

Most of our spar stores have now been taken over by co-ops/scotmid.
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But there's a sainsburys and morrisons too though
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Spar here is here to stay i should think. We have Eurospar and a normal Spar.
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There's a tesco opening right next to our local Spar, they aren't happy about it and there have been protests but that didn't stop anything, can't see Spar lasting much longer here even though they've been here since I was born I think

Eurospar is still a pretty massive country european wise though they'll be alright
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